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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






2. A three-line stanza.






3. What a story or play is about.






4. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






5. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






6. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






7. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






8. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






9. The dictionary meaning of a word.






10. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






11. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






12. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






13. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






14. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






15. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






16. The person who 'tells' the story.






17. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






18. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






19. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






20. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






21. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






22. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






23. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






24. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






25. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






26. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






27. A character struggles against some outside force.






28. A short saying with a moral.






29. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






30. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






31. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






32. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






33. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






34. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






35. A strong pause within a line.






36. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






37. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






38. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






39. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






40. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






41. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






42. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






43. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






44. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






45. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






46. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






47. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






48. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






49. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






50. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.